Similar newspapers are seen on the newstand at Hamburg airport when James Bond picks up an English language edition; all the newspapers, controlled by the Carver Media Group, bear the same headlines regarding the British Royal Naval ship apparently sunk in a hostile action by the Chinese. Reading the headlines, Bond realises that Elliot Carver [Jonathan Pryce] has engineered the crisis to precipitate a nuclear war between Britain and China, the only country not to subscribe to his media network, thereby enabling him to monopolise world-wide news. As Carver remarks at his launch party "There's no news like bad news".